Chapter 141: House Rules

The Li family became a family, and even became a famous family, because of Li Mengze's generation, and later generations have recognized this as the undisputed founder of this family. The Li family is actually composed of four surnames, namely Li Mengze's "Li" family, Li Yudong's "Li" family, Wang Zhaoyun's "Wang" family and Xu Peng's "Xu" family, of which the Li family is the core of the Li family and the most important family force. The Li family has 18 children as the second generation of guardians and entrepreneurs, and the descendants of future generations are also from the 18 children of these nine mothers. According to statistics, among the elders of the Li family in the past dynasties, the members from Gigi Lin's family are the most, but less than one-sixth, and the children and descendants of the rest of the grandmothers have also become the patriarch of the family. Within the Li family, there is no real lineage, and there is no so-called collateral lineage, children are not separated, and it is rare for a father and son or father and daughter to become two generations of patriarchs. Even if the surnames of the members of the Li family were not unified in the later period, the family heads of the previous generations were all surnamed "Li" without exception, and the family heads of the previous generations had a direct blood relationship with the founder of the family, Li Mengze, which was exactly the same as other families.

The reason why a family can continue to exist is that in addition to group interests, it is a strong blood relationship, and the so-called family is a special interest group composed of blood related people. The Li family has endured for a long time, and there have been many crises during this period, but there are always people who come forward to save the whole family in danger, which can be seen how deep the Li family's heritage is! People have found a special phenomenon, in the Li family there are no examples of individuals having huge property, even some daughters-in-law from famous families with a net worth of hundreds of millions, their descendants do not have direct property inheritance, either they give up the right to inherit the property of their mother's family, or directly transfer the property to the name of the family patriarch and become the common property of the family; And those family members who have worked hard to start a business for a generation have no personal property, which is also a very strange phenomenon, which is inconsistent with many families...... The emergence of all these phenomena is due to the founder of the Li family, who jointly reveres and loves Li Mengze!

Many of the family rules of the Li family are stolen from other people's homes, just like they steal the rules and regulations from other companies and evolve into their own companies, which are completely imitated from other families, which accounts for a considerable part of them, but these family rules are not the most important part, and these family rules can be modified by the family patriarchs and core management of successive generations, and these regulations are not formulated at the same time, most of them are added little by little, which can be seen that the character of the founder of the Li family and the difficulty of starting a business! The core of the Li family is the Li family, and at the same time, the Li family has more idle people, and more importantly, Li Mengze is relatively idle, so the formulation of family rules is mainly operated by them, and several other families are mostly involved in auxiliary work, but not necessarily, for example, Lu Jing's work is also more. But one thing is certain, before they explicitly proposed the establishment of a family, the Li family had gradually established the family rules, of course, this was established step by step; To be precise, the family rules of the Li family are divided into two parts, one is the family rules of the entire Li family, which are binding on the whole clan, and the other is the family rules of the individual Li family, which are only binding on their Li family members, and other families "do it themselves". Li Mengze has indeed created unique family regulations for future generations little by little, and with the help and inspiration of women and friends, he has created unique Li clan rules, especially the Li family rules. Every time they encounter a situation, they think about it in detail and record it as a basis for their subsequent actions. At the beginning, Li Mengze didn't expect that he would be the founder of a huge family, he just wanted to spend his life happily with women, but as more and more women appeared, from four to five, to seven, and then to eight and finally nine, he had to consider the combination of families. Later, when the children were born one by one, especially a pair, he couldn't be sloppy. From the beginning of his investment and establishment of the company, there were a series of problems waiting for him to solve, and as time went on, there were more and more things encountered, and the family began to seriously think about the things of future generations, and a sense of responsibility grew naturally in everyone's heart, and they understood that there were many things that they had to solve, and that they could only be solved by their generation. If it is not solved well, the whole family and clan may fail, and even cause infighting and disputes between relatives in the family, so that relatives will become enemies, and the entire family may be "ruined" in an instant! Therefore, the women took this matter very seriously, and several women who were extremely passionate about their work also put down their work and gave advice to their men......

As the saying goes, the country has its own laws, the family has its own rules, the country's legal system is universal, and everyone within all ranges must respect and abide by it, and once the violators are discovered, they will be severely punished; The rules of the family vary from family to family, and the rules of a small family may be very strict, but after all, the scope is too small, relatively single, and there is nothing to pay attention to, but the family, especially the family that has become a family, cannot do without a rules and regulations that the whole family respects. In most cases, the family rules and regulations are compatible with national laws and regulations, and do not violate the laws and regulations of the country, which is also an inevitable condition for the existence of a family; But any family has some "private rules" that are not written down, but must be followed by the whole family. The family rules of the Li family have more of their own characteristics, which are compatible with the law, and often drill the Confucius of the law, becoming a unique family regulation, in the family rules of the Li family, there is such a statement, "This family rule takes into account the feelings of the people and the family family, if it conflicts with the national law, it should be implemented according to the family regulations, and the violator will be expelled from the family", it can be seen that the Li family is not based on the law, but even if the violator is only expelled from the family, it seems that there is no too strict punishment!

Because of the personal relationship, but also because of the unique experience of the individual, the first article of the Li clan rules stipulates that "all male members of the Li clan must treat their women well; All female members of the Lee clan must be kind to their husbands." This is a bit subtle, the rules for male members do not say that they are "wives", but only "women", and there is a reason for this, the Li family (especially the Li family) does not object to men (direct members) polygamy, as long as they do not marry for life, they can live with multiple women who love each other at the same time, but once there is more than one woman, they cannot marry for the rest of their lives, regardless of whether a woman leaves or dies halfway. This family rule is a very special one in the Li clan rules, and it is placed at the top of the family rules! As long as a woman who is a male member of the direct Li family, regardless of her origin, whether or not she has become a member of the family in the legal sense, even if the direct member dies, they have the rights that ordinary family members should have. Of course, the punishment for violating this rule was also quite severe, and the punishment was "expelled from the family", which was well enforced in later generations. Especially in the Li family, almost every generation has lustful direct men, and like their ancestors, they are "gentle and affectionate", which has attracted many women to accompany them for a lifetime, and at the same time, it is these tender women who have made great contributions to the continued prosperity of the family (especially the sustainable overwhelming advantage of the Li family)!

The second rule of the family is written like this: "All members of the Li family should be based on goodness and righteousness to their friends." The Li family's generation of entrepreneurship has been helped by several friends of Li Mengze, it can be said that without them, the Li family would not have developed so smoothly, and the twists and turns would have been more experienced, of course, there would be no later Li family. For this reason, Li Mengze was very grateful to Li Yudong and them, and regarded them as his lifelong friends. Li Yudong knew it, but they didn't show gratitude, they were all bloody men, they couldn't avenge their friends in person, and they were very relieved to see him take such a huge risk. And the reason why they have not abandoned Li Mengze for so many years and finally decided to form a family together is also an important reason. Li Mengze hopes that future generations will not only remember Li Yudong's deep friendship, but also treat their new friends with righteousness. In addition, the Lee family stipulates that family members are prohibited from bullying, and the family will not give shelter to those who violate this article, and those who violate it seriously will be expelled from the family. Li Mengze believes that a family can win the respect of the society, on the one hand, it is related to its own strong financial ability, on the other hand, it is also related to her social performance.

Article 3 of the Li family stipulates that "property is the property of the family, not owned by individuals, but all the property of the family is under the management of one person". The members of the Li family, who do not have more than 10 million private wealth, everyone, whether they are capable or not, can get enough living expenses from the family head, even if it is used to support women, the head of the family must also give "support" from the family property, as long as it does not violate human feelings, they must be paid; Of course, it is not allowed to use family property to pay for inappropriate expenses, such as a woman who is a direct male raising a little white face outside, which is extremely impermissible, and the Li family will not agree. Some of the wives of the direct men of the Li family also have a lot of net worth, but without exception, they themselves cannot have the right to inherit the property, and they either give it up or directly transfer it to the common property of the family. There were people who were unwilling to accept this provision, and the head of the family did not hesitate to exercise his power, threatening to expel them from the family if they wanted to marry, and if they wanted to pass on their property to the next generation, as long as it was accepted by the next generation, their next generation could not be recognized and protected by the family. For this reason, it once caused a fierce conflict with another rich man, but the Li family did not back down at all, forcing the other party to have to merge its property into the Li family. In fact, since the first generation of the Li family, such a thing has been encountered, Chen Haili directly transferred the property passed down by her father to her husband, Liang Jiayi took the money she had worked hard to accumulate as family expenses, and Gigi Lin even transferred Donglin Group to her husband's name, and did not pass it on to their biological children. The reason for this is to ensure that the Li family's industry is unified and not divided, and more importantly, to ensure that each generation is fair and united, and that no one is superior to the other, because they do not receive any financial support from their fathers, mothers, and grandfathers, so that they can get along with the rest of the family to a large extent. This is a very important regulation, which fundamentally ensures that the Li family will not have the so-called phenomenon of lineage, collateral lineage, and especially lineage, and maintains the stability and prosperity of the family. In fact, the direct members of the Li family, whether they are boys or girls, are a group of poor people, who are in the family, have endless money, but they can't take out a penny, and they can only inject it into the family, which has become a peculiar phenomenon among the families. There were once people who wanted to divide the property of the Li family through legal means, but the Li family did not own any property, and there was only one heir in each generation, and the so-called heirs were deprived of the right to own private property, making those people in vain and becoming a joke in society!

Article 4 of the family rules of the Li family is also very distinctive, which reads: "All direct members of the Li family are not required to have a unified surname, but as the head of the family, they must have the surname Li, and the head of the family must be a person who is directly related to the Li family; All members of the Lee family must appear under a foreign surname during their high school and college life and must live alone away from home." This is also very interesting, Li Mengze's children, in high school, were sent out of the house by their fathers, using their mother's surname, until they graduated from college, they changed their original surnames; More than a dozen children, without exception, were proud of being surnamed Li, and as soon as they had the opportunity, they immediately restored their original identities. Although the other tertiary diseases do not have so many children, they were all sent out of the house at the instigation of someone, and the situation is similar to that of the children of the Li family. But in later generations, there are also people who are reluctant to appear under the family name, and live in society with the surname of their father or mother or even grandparents, which is quite chaotic, and of course, more people live under the family name. None of the female direct members of the Li family are the head of the family, but their descendants, as long as they are willing to become members of the Li family, still have the right to become the head of the family, but some people voluntarily give up this right and become a branch of the Li family. Succumbing to the arrangement of their ancestors, and in order to experience the experience of their ancestors living alone, every direct member of the Li family left the family around the age of 15 and lived independently, until graduating from college, there are many parents who are reluctant to leave their children around, but there is nothing they can do, who let them live in a strange family, God destined them to be different; This also makes them unusually affectionate to other children who have not left home, after all, they are all children of the Li family, and it is also good to transfer emotions (the Qi family has a deep blood relationship within the Li family, according to the statistics of a good person, every direct member of the Li family is related to Li Mengze)! Almost every generation lives with a different surname, but the head of the family can only use the surname Li (otherwise, it will be a joke).

For the punishment of family members who make mistakes, regardless of the severity of their mistakes and whether they are expelled from the family or not, the Li family has this provision: "All children of the Li family have equal family rights and are not deprived of their parents' actions, but those who voluntarily renounce their family membership will forever lose the normal power qualifications of family members once they have done so for three consecutive generations." This is also a very important provision of the Li family, even if they commit a crime, as long as they are not expelled from the family, although they will be punished, they still enjoy the normal rights of family members, and even have the possibility of becoming the head of the family, and their children also have the same rights as other direct members of the family; Even if they are expelled from the family, their children are still direct members of the Li family, and have the same power as other direct members, which is said to be "a crime that does not cause harm to the next generation". It is said that the son of a member who was expelled from the family succeeded to the throne as the head of the family, and even if three generations made mistakes in a row, the fourth generation was still a direct member of the Li family, but this never happened. However, the Lee clan is unrelenting in refusing to recognize the members of the family, and once a certain power has been exercised for three consecutive generations, the family will automatically deprive the members of that lineage of power, after which they can become collateral members of the family or leave the family altogether. Maybe it's the kindness of human nature, or maybe the temptation of being a member of the Li family is too great, and there has never been a phenomenon of two consecutive generations announcing that they will not accept the constraints of the Li family's family rules, and this family rule also shows the Li family's tolerance, and never abandons those who make mistakes, even if the current generation is expelled from the family, their children are still valued by the family.

For the core of the family members and their patriarchs, it is stipulated that "the members of the family, who are capable, must work for the interests of the family, for the benefit of all members of the family and the future, and form a core management, and the core management shall not enjoy special powers; The head of the family must act for the interests of the family and does not have the right of private inheritance of the family property, but has full management power, is assisted by the core management and is supervised by them, must take care of the interests of the whole family, and do his due diligence for the growth of the next generation of the family". The core members of the Li family and the patriarch of the family are all some laborious people, except for the patriarch who has some special powers, everyone else is no different from ordinary members, this is to prevent individual people from seeking personal gain, their behavior is monitored by the whole clan, they have to work for the welfare of the whole clan, and the pressure is very great. Especially the head of the family, the responsibility is even greater, he is the core and most tired person in the whole family, he is noticed by the world, but he suffers by himself. The head of the family is the most unpopular position in the Li family, and there have been many instances of refusal to serve as the head of the family, but most of the heads of the family have taken on this important responsibility on their own initiative, and there have been few cases of competition for the head of the family. Among the successive patriarchs of the Li family, there were people who were willing to give up the power of normal people for the sake of "family interests", violated national laws, became "sinners", and were even severely punished by the judicial organs, but the Li family never gave up the "family head", and someone came out to replace the position of the head of the family. What makes opponents have to admire is that the Li family has had two consecutive family patriarchs spend the rest of their lives in prison, and they are still the same generation! Under normal circumstances, the head of the family is passed down from generation to generation, but in emergency situations, there are also people of the same generation who serve successively; Of course, if the patriarch of the family seriously violates the family rules, the punishment is also extremely severe, although he will not be expelled from the family, but he will not be allowed to contact outsiders for the rest of his life, and he will be alone for the rest of his life!

The Li family's family rules are not very many, and the regulations are not very detailed, leaving a relatively large amount of independent power for future generations, of course, it also leaves room for the successive generations of family leaders, "things, you can't do it, you have to leave some for future generations", Li Mengze said to a few unsatisfied women, why bother, the family is not a cage, she is a safe haven for the whole family, and a place for them to live in a sinister world, there is no need to make them work so hard, and they can't force future generations to have no place to stand! Yes, as long as they can ensure their long-term survival and not be bullied, as parents, is there anything else to ask for? So, such a family rule with Chinese characteristics and the unique charm of the Li family came out like this, although it is not very complete, "almost", everyone who saw it said with such a cry and laughter!